I used to believe that if you didn't get out of the bathroom and turn off the light before the toilet finished flushing at night (night meaning if I was already in bed), the whole room would flush down and you would die.
I'm still terrified to go to the bathroom at night.
A childhood belief about fear of

others believed things like this
- The song 'there's a bad moon out to night.' i thought they were saying 'there's a bathroom on the right.'— kim in alabama
- My mother didn't want me outside at night so she told me i had to come in or else 'the night air would get me'— Dan
- I used to believe that if you didn't take your socks off at night your feet would turn into jellyAnon
- I always thought the song Blinded by the light went "Wrapped up like a dousche, another runner in the night"— Dawn
- I used to think that at night at the beach the government would turn off the waves.— Caitlin
- if I painted an egg on Easter Sunday, it would turn into chocolate during the night— Kay